If someone was born deaf and blind, what would they dream of?

[tazzy@lemm.ee]

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People who are born blind dream with the sensation of touch, sound, smell and taste. Basically how they experience the world when they are awake. No image but the rest intact. I imagine it's same for the deafblind except sans sound.

[lordnikon@lemmy.world]

This made me thing of another question if someone was born deaf but if you attached a device that would have a mic with an amplifier and a transducer that touched the skin so they could feel the vibration frequency changes based on sound. Could they develop a new way of hearing sounds? Could they learn to speak?

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

There's an ~100% chance Helen Keller got asked about this. Uh, yep, although I don't recognise the source and can't guarantee it's not fake or AI slop. The format would be new for slop - the actual fact is in image form, there's a comment section and it's dated over a decade ago.

[catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Deaf people already may learn to speak without that through speech therapy, although for most it’s not their preferred method of communication.

I don’t know how it’s changed in the modern day because the people I know who went through it as kids did it like 30 years ago, but it used to be common to hold a balloon against the throat while speaking to feel the different sounds you’re making.